Good evening. I'd like to call the September 15, 2025 meeting of the Select Board and Board of Health to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Remember the cameras add 10. And there's like five cameras in that thing right there. Uh, this meeting is being conducted in the select board office and also
broadcast on Zoom. We are recording the meeting. Is there anyone else recording the meeting? Kristen Rivers from the Hampton Times. Welcome, Kristen. All right. So, we have uh uh an abbreviated agenda tonight. Um, our town
administrator is not here. Um and also select board member Davenport is also away. So we've taken some of the items that we had on our agenda and pushed them to next week. But we do have a couple of time critical things. So we've kept the meeting.
So do we have any minutes? Um administrative assistant McCormack. I'll have them ready for next week. Thank you so much. All right. So the first thing on the agenda is you Richard. Okay. Welcome. Thank you.
So, Richard had called before uh with an idea for at the NTH, which is what the board is calling the new town hall. Um in a way to honor the memory of some of the people, you know, who have served the town over the many, many years
coming up to our 150th. So, please share. Okay. Well, thank you for uh making it possible for me to attend. Um this idea occurred to me when uh you know I heard the news that uh we were transitioning to the Nth
and um you know being a teacher for three decades uh it um the idea just popped into my head of of coming up with a way of using the new town hall
um as as not only you know the center of government but as a a place where people can learn about how how Hamen got to be, what Hamen is today. And um I mean uh
you've been in town far longer than I uh and you're far more aware of the history, but in the short time that I've been here um I've run across some very impressive individuals. So, um, what I was thinking and what I want to propose
to this group is that you consider, um, creating, um, a plaque with perhaps a picture on it and naming some of the conference rooms and the offices in the
new town hall after some of the people who got us to where we are today. Mhm. And also even using the hallways to honor people um and um at uh Select McFlyn's recommendation, I
talked to the uh historical board about it and uh they endorsed the idea. Um in fact, they have a lot of pictures in a closet somewhere. So let me the historical society. I'm sorry. Yeah. Right. Okay. Historic I'm I'm newbie here. No, it's all right. There too. There's
also a historic commission which you may have talked to as well. Yeah. No, the historical society was the one I talked to. In fact, I I I joined. Um but anyway, they they've got a bunch of pictures sitting in a closet and it would cost us nothing to hang them up
in the hallways at the new town hall. They're pictures of former select board members right? Yeah. And as people walk by, um, we could, and I'm, you know, I'm just sharing the ideas that I shared with them. Um, we could even get the kids at the school involved and they could put a
little essay under the thing. So and so was a selectman from 1850 to 1865 and he did this, this, this, and this. And, uh, this person, you know, was uh, involved as as the school nurse in town
for 20 years. And you know, she initiated these programs. And people will walk by and they'll look and they'll get a little mini history lesson. Um, also I I mentioned to to Linda there, I I am a I I do engraving and um
I would volunteer my services. If um if we don't have pictures of people or if you want something different in some of the rooms, I I can make a laser engraving Mhm. of that person and put it on wood or paper, whatever. But the bottom line is
when you come into the to to the new town hall, you're going to see the people who got us to where we are and it would be very very inexpensive. Um if if I get your blessing on this, I may come to you in a couple of months
when I've had a chance to think and say, "Hey, um I could use a couple of hundred bucks to help with supplies, but uh I would like to involve the school and I'd certainly like to involve the community because I think the community
would um um have a lot of input on this. Um, I I mentioned to to Linda that uh one of the finest people I ever met in my life came from this town. He was my uh father-in-law's uh lifelong best friend,
Sherwood Kron. Mhm. And uh Sherwood um actually uh you know provided me with some first aid one time when I fell in one of the uh the creeks behind his house um on a day when
it was 10° and I I was at his door frozen solid. You called me about that and Sherwood actually served on the select board with my father. Yeah. And of course Sherwood very rare selectman in two different towns. Oh, I was unaware of that. So uh uh and
also the sleigh rally was I believe held at his property as well which was a fantastic event in Hampton. Um I would also encourage you to reach out to Connie Wit from the historical commission as well. Um it might be a little early
to because we are really in the middle of flushing out what's happening and we do refer to it as the Nth just so we differentiate what we're talking about but even that hasn't been put in stone yet or granite or whatever we're going to use right um so all the we keep all these things
moving concurrently rich and that's really going to help so I I I think the board appreciates what you brought to us. Well, thank you. Keeping the memory of where Hamlin came from, especially as we're approaching our 150th celebration. Exactly. That's extremely important.
Timing couldn't have been better. Right. So, I mean, we did talk about naming a room after Eric, but might be a little early for that yet. Yeah. Mhm. Little early. Just just a hair. Just so words.
Okay. Hey, you're speaking to the choir here. Um, so thank you for bringing that forward and let's let's keep flushing that out. Yep. Okay. Uh, additionally, just one another 60 seconds. It occurred to me that something we could do to raise uh, funds
for the 150th. That would be a lot of fun. U, is to develop a coloring book about Hampton. And I now have the software to do that. You give me virtually any picture and I'll convert it into a coloring book page. And uh I'm sure Sheriff Coochi
I've already published three coloring books um for the second chance animal shelter. So um I have a fourth one in the works for them and Sheriff Coochis we've been very generous about making printing services available. Mhm.
And again at the 150th what what would be you know more fun than getting the kids involved and giving a coloring book about town. So okay I am out of here. Good. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Great to be here. Good to see you again. And let me know about the other thing, please.
Yes. All right. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you, sir. Take care. You, too. Good to see you. I hope you have a good night. Take care now. Thanks. All right. So, administrative assistant McCormack,
what's next on the agenda? Uh, they are three one day lair permits. one for the VFW and two for the senior center. Okay. Okay. So, the one for we've always been a little more
asking a little more exactly what the event is at the BFW. Uh so, it just said end of summer event. I think we've talked about their events in the past and the one thing I do want to stress and I think I said it before is that we've never had any hint of a
problem with any event with the VFW. They do a great great job of maybe the word policing is is wrong, but they do a great job of managing what goes on there. So, we've expressed in the past that some events we feel might be
inappropriate for like maybe a sweet 16, a high school graduation. It's tough to endorse an alcohol permit for something where it's underage. However, end of summer, as we can all agree, the end of summer was certainly something. Yes absolutely.
So, that is uh so this Saturday from 5 to 10 and looking for a motion to approve that. A motion to approve the uh liquor license for the VFW for September 20th. Second. All in favor? I I. We have two requests from the senior
center. Uh obviously the same event actually they have them Saturday and Sunday. So this is the I don't want to say annual. I think it's quarterly almost learn four times a year roughly. Looks like it. Yeah, about that.
So, and I believe they also said this, I think when they came to see us, they're hoping to transition this to the NTH in the future. Um, so they're looking for a one-day liquor permit for Saturday the 11th from 12:00 to 4:00 for their art
show and Sunday, October 12th from 12 to 3. Again, they've done that in the past. And they're only serving one ever. Yeah. That's why. Have you attended a couple of those uh art shows? Uh I have not just yet. My wife actually
has gone. There you go. I'm sure you have something around the house. Good. Absolutely. Motion to approve bulk permits. I'd like a motion to approve the liquor license for the um uh senior center for the uh
Saturday October 11th, 12 to 4, and Sunday October 12th, and 12 to three for the Sketer River Artisans Art Show. Second. All in favor? I low clarity. These are just wine. Uh they're just wine right there.
Okay. As I said, uh we were passing quite a bit of the agenda. So we would we typically like to talk about things with a full board and so many of the things uh you might have seen posted will not be they' be passed the next week. The one
thing we did talk about was that we had requested all warrant articles to be in for today. Correct. So even if it wasn't a warrant article placeholder to be sent to Brian or this office. Um I do see we do have a draft one here. We're aware of a couple more
that Brian just hasn't had a chance to put into the draft at this point, but I believe we are considering the door closed. If Brian was not made aware of a request for a placeholder, we didn't need the the language, but that
department X or department Y needed something on the warrant by today, we're putting it off. Right. Um because we are a month and a half away from the special time meeting and we can't be doing this up to the 11th hour.
So I'm not saying we're considering the warrant closed, but we are considering the door closed for request to be added to the warrant. Correct. All right. Um do you have any reports? Nothing to report on my end. Just to just to reiterate though, Eric and I were talking about the fact we are re we
are expanding the mandate of the fiber optic committee which you are the chair. Anything you want to touch on? Yeah, I can I can touch base with that a little bit. So yeah, so there's been um several folks reaching out with their displeasure with spectrum service uh
specifically for internet and um you know we had pursued the um you know the fiber optic technology into town and it was you know voted down at a town meeting but even that being said there's enough there's enough um chatter in the community right now to
be able to basically revitalize and and relook into other options at this point. So even though the fiber optic committee hasn't officially been dissolved, it's going to kind of be reinvented if you will and kind of to see where kind of spectrum is now as we were kind of
given a um you know some communication to give a month or two ago about them doing some infrastructure upgrade and that was done but there's been no further communication on that and folks are kind of waiting like hey we were told that we're going to get faster
internet speeds and So, uh, that decision really has made a mand set of dissolve. Let's let's expand it out a little bit and see what else is out there. And that can't hurt at this point in time. You really update your the mandate, if you will, the mission statement. The mission statement, the bandwidth. Exactly.
Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. All right. I I have uh nothing to report. And does the admin assistant have anything to report? I have nothing to report. All right. Second thing being uh I any other business before the board? Nobody
on Zoom? No. Nope. Okay, I'll entertain a motion. Motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor? Hi. Hi.